Evergreen Glass Sculpture With Candy Dishes

How was your Labor Day weekend? I did a little work this weekend and also created a new glass sculpture. I found several similar candy dishes at various rummage and estate sales this past weekend, and knew I wanted to combine them into one sculpture.

Aren’t they pretty?

Then I found this candy dish, and while it had a different design from the ones shown above, it did kind of look like that awesome piece I put in my clear sculpture a few weeks ago.

Funny how you can suddenly happen on pieces that are very similar in design at the same time but different places. I found a couple of these larger dishes and also a few small ones. So I gathered them up with the rest of the glass I had on hand to make my new sculpture.

Once again, I started with a punch bowl as the base.

Then I put a nice big plate over the top of it.

A few weeks ago I had found these cool evergreen glasses, and since they were all the same, I thought they’d make a good layer on this sculpture.

I glued them down, making sure they were fairly evenly distributed on the plate.

Then another plate and a vase on top of that.

I added the layers of green candy dishes next.

And that funky crystal one.

Now here, as my husband even told me, is where some glass-sculpture-building-people would stop, with the crystal candy dish. It does look like a cute little beacon up there on top. But as you can see from that dollop of glue up top, I thought that I needed a few more things on there. I’m obsessed. I know.

So I pulled out a small green ashtray I found a few weeks ago, and a big tea light holder.

That tea light holder is really something, isn’t it? It’s heavy besides. I glued the two pieces together and placed them atop the sculpture.

Ta da! So much better than just leaving it with the crystal candy dish, don’t you think?